Will Rogers Quotes

Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

Man is born to eat.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It seems that everywhere I go, people want the same things - security, education, family. It's just that so many people have no avenues through which to obtain these things.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure, and a need to feel loved. The culture and economics just determine how those needs are expressed.

There are some basic human needs that are the same. Everybody wants to succeed.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

What difference is there in the color of the soul?

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.

We all have the same needs. So it's immoral to make snap judgments about people.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their "differences" in color.